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Show ENTOMOLOGY 1 1 Edited by Prof. E. G. Titus, State Agricultural College. THE RIGHT TIME OF THE YEAR TO PREPARE AND TO REPAIR. By E. G. Titus. To go through the orchard and sec that the weeds and grass and other trash of any kind is far removed from the trees. Jf you will insist on protecting pro-tecting the mice from wintry weather they will be glad to repay you by gnawing the nice bark from the trees. To sec that the weeds and trash along the fences and ditches is cleaned up and burned. Many insects have gone into hibernation in these places. Affords them a pleasant winter's win-ter's home and they expect to come out early in the spring and find good feed upon the young and growing crops. . . To sec that the garden weeds and rubbish arc cleaned up thoroughly. Always consider trash accuniulating in a garden andl the cabbage-butterfly and the flca-bcctlc will consider it a favor to hayc the trash left. for thejr and their kinds especial protection. To sec that all the grasshopper eggs laid in. the. alfalfa field do not hatch out next spring. Good plan to.,disc jt now, break up those egg-pouches and then the winter and early spring weather, wea-ther, will take care of tlje eggs for you. To see that those thrcadless, bolts on your spray-pump are replaced. When you get ready to spray with lime-sulfur against that San Jose scale, those red spider eggs or those green-aphis green-aphis eggs, you will not feel pleasant if you find your hose is in bad shape or your attachments leaking or your pole cracked. Fix them all now. Do you nee 1 an iron kettle to cook the mixture in? Better order it now then you will not have to wait on tlje manufacturer man-ufacturer or the railroad when you want to be spraying. The same holds true for the rest of your apparatus. See that you have your pump in. order or-der and- good barrels at hand; . . 1 -To take those burlap bands from around the trunks of your apple trees. Kill the worms in the little white cocoons co-coons but let the spiders go free. Clean the bands up and they will be ready when you want them next June. To break up the dirt a few inches deep around your pear and cherry trees. The slugs are simply laying in that dirt for the winter and early next year the adult four-winged saw-flics will come out and lay eggs in the leaves. Stir 'cm up good; you will get rid of some of them anyvaj To gather in a small bundle of wheat-stubble and send it to us. We want to sec if you have joint-worms in your wheat. Don't wait for your neighbor to send, it won't matter it we get several lots from onc place. Now is the time to look after this j matter and we would like samples from all over this state and from $ everywhere else that The Deseret i Farmer goes. , . To look over your young peach trees for borers this fall and then next spring sec that the trees arc properly protected. Do a good thorough job now, do not put ft off until the ground is covered with snow, you won't do it then. |